September 26^th 1793. Green County. I have this day returned from a tour to the Creek nation, have burnt the beds of one town, killed six Warriors the number wounded is uncertain, and took eight prisoners, which I now have at the town of Greensborough. I now wait the result of your excellency respecting the prisoners, and request that they may be kept at some interior place as the prejudices of the people on the frontiers may operate materially against them. The want of Arms ammunition &c may, and Helves will entirely soon remedied be the cause of the frontier in this quarter being evacuated. You will receive the particulars from Brigadier General Jared Irwin. I am with respect, your Excellency, Most obedient servant William Melton, L^t Col^r 1^st Reg^t G^r County. [Taken from the files of the Executive. Attest W^r Urquhart, S E D.] Extract of a Letter from Captain Jonas Fauche dated September 28^th 1793. The 7^th Instant the Indians stole some horses and shot at the owners as they were following the trail, and killed one of their Horses. — We started from the oak mulge the 17^th inst. and the 21^st by five in the morning we discovered that the trail had led us to a town covered by a large river at least 300 yards wide. We killed but six warriors, and we know nothing about the wounded as it was not quite light — we took eight women and children prisoners, which were found chiefly in the two houses first taken — we found four scalps in the town house, and the prisoners declare they were taken last summer upon the Oconee and St. Marys rivers. The prisoners say also, great many Warriors are gone to burn Borland, and that one hundred and three of them were in the town when we stormed it. [Taken from the files of the Executive. Attest W^r Urquhart, S E D.] The foregoing communications from the Governor of Georgia, to the Secretary of War, are true copies from the files of the War Office. Jn^o Stagg, Jun^r Chief Clerk.